About Island Bakery

We are out of stock on all Island Bakery products until June. A few products should be back in stock at that time, but we generally do not ship heat-sensitive items during the summer. Also, please know that the prices will increase when we get them back in stock. Chelsea Imports imports Island Bakery products to the United States. They were one of the first brands we imported and have been importing them for 20 years. About Island Bakery Joe & Dawn Reade were fresh-faced and naïve young graduates of the University of Edinburgh when they started baking bread in a converted garage in Tobermory in 1994. The local baker was retiring, and the islanders needed someone to keep them in lovely fresh loaves. In 1996, they bought a shop on Tobermory’s colourful Main Street, which became the Island Bakery Delicatessen. It was through stocking the deli with tempting specialty foods that Dawn realized there was a gap in the market for tempting organic biscuits. Keen to make something that could travel beyond Mull, the Reades thought that biscuits seemed to be an excellent product to introduce to places beyond the island’s shores. In 2001 Island Bakery Organics was born. By 2007, the biscuit side of the business had overtaken the deli, and the Reades made the difficult decision to sell their shop to concentrate on biscuits. Soon afterward, plans were made to build a new bakery. The new premises were completed in June 2012 and powered by local renewable energy. Read their story